29 Facts About Grampa Simpson

Abraham Jebediah "Abe" Simpson II, better known as Grampa, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

Grampa Simpson made his first appearance in the episode entitled "Grandpa and the Kids", a one-minute Simpsons short on The Tracey Ullman Show, before the debut of the television show in 1989.

Grampa Simpson is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who voices his son, Homer Simpson.

Grampa Simpson is the paternal grandfather of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

Grampa Simpson is a World War II veteran and retired farmer who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer.

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Grampa Simpson is known for his long, rambling, often incoherent and irrelevant stories and senility.

Grampa Simpson is a supporting character and is rarely the main focus of an episode of The Simpsons.

Grampa Simpson is the father to Homer Simpson, father-in-law to Marge Simpson and the paternal grandfather to siblings Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

Grampa Simpson has fathered two illegitimate children; a daughter named Abbey by a British woman named Edwina while in the United Kingdom during World War II, and Herbert Powell by a carnival prostitute.

Grampa Simpson has an older brother named Cyrus, who lives in Tahiti and has multiple native wives.

Grampa Simpson has a younger brother named Chet, who owns an unsuccessful shrimp company.

Grampa Simpson was briefly married to Amber, the same woman Homer married on a drinking binge in Las Vegas.

Grampa Simpson has been briefly married to Marge's sister, Selma Bouvier, and was once romantically linked to Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier.

Grampa Simpson gives his age as 83 in the Season 17 episode "Million Dollar Abie, " while in "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me", the family celebrates his 87th birthday, although he is canonically 83.

Grampa Simpson's age remains the same over the years, therefore, he has been a member of the Interbellum Generation, Greatest Generation, and now the Silent Generation.

Grampa Simpson is a veteran of World War II, where he served as Master Sergeant of the Flying Hellfish unit.

At the very end of the war in Europe, Grampa Simpson's unit "liberated" a stash of priceless art from surrendering German forces.

Grampa Simpson was a hated wrestler named "Glamorous Godfrey" in the 1950s, revealed in the episode "Gorgeous Grampa Simpson", starring him and Mr Burns.

Grampa Simpson became entranced with the hippie lifestyle after seeing Joe Namath's hair on television.

Grampa Simpson has a poor, but sometimes loving relationship with his son, who placed him in a nursing home as soon as he could, despite Grampa Simpson selling his house in order to provide Homer with a mortgage.

Grampa Simpson left it to the writers to choose a name and they ironically chose "Abraham", although not knowing that it was the name of Groening's grandfather.

Simpsons writer Al Jean commented that Grampa is often the focus of pointed jokes about old people.

Grampa Simpson said the reason for that is because the staff is trying to illustrate how society mistreats the elderly, "and some of it is because people over 55 never watch our show".

Grampa Simpson believes that what ultimately makes Grampa funny is that the things he says are "actually funny" in the context of the boredom and the tedium.

Anne-Marie Barry and Chris Yuill, the authors of the book Understanding the Sociology of Health, commented that in episodes in which Grampa Simpson appears, the comedy content is often generated by Grampa Simpson falling asleep at "inopportune" moments or "embarking" on long rambling stories about his youth.

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Alan S Brown and Chris Logan wrote in The Psychology of The Simpsons that Grampa has the least amount of "power" in the Simpson family, and that he is treated as little more than a child and is often ignored.

Brown and Logan wrote that Grampa had a considerable influence in the formation of Homer's character, and that flashbacks in The Simpsons show what an "angry", "critical" father he was to Homer.

The second, "Sunday Grampa Simpson", was released in June 2002, and depicts Grampa Simpson in his Sunday church clothes.

Alongside the television series, Grampa regularly appears in issues of Simpsons Comics, which were first published on November 29,1993.